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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Duleep, Harriet | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-06-19 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-09-14T11:07:51Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2012-09-14T11:07:51Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2012 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/62558 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The hypothesis is tested in two ways: longitudinally, with data from ancient religious texts, and cross-sectionally, with twentieth-century statistics on regional population/land ratios linked to anthropological measures of caste-system rigidity. Both the longitudinal and cross-sectional evidence suggest that the labor/land ratio affected the caste system's development, persistence, and rigidity over time and across regions of India. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | IZA Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6612 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J47 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J1 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J30 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | N3 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | Z13 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | labor-to-land ratio | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | population | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | involuntary labor | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | immobility | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | value of life | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | marginal product of labor | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | market wage | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Soziale Schicht | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Sklaverei | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Arbeitskräfte | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Boden | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Faktorintensität | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Eigentümerstruktur | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Arbeitsproduktivität | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Sozialgeschichte | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Indien | | en_US |
| dc.title | | The labor/land ratio and India's caste system | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 717908593 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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